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Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonsons Flight from Slavery

Author: Winifred ConklingPages: 304ISBN: 0525953612Language: English

The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history.In 1848, Emily Edmonson, thirteen, along with five siblings and seventy other enslaved people, boarded the Pearl in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in a bid to reach freedom. Wi